Sausage-stuffing device.



H. W. LOUDEN, SR. SAUSAGE STUFFING DEVICE.

vAPPLICATION FILED MAR.25,1912.

1,043,241, Patented Nov.5,1912.

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ATTORNEYS.

sTATEs PATENT HENRY W.' LoUDEN, SE., or LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.

uur@v4 sAUsAGE-srUrEING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1.912.

Application led March 25, 1912. Serial No. 685,942.

` the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the art of sausage manufacture.

lt has heretofore been the practice to provide machines for forcing sausage meat through a delivery spout into the gut or skin to be stuffed. One type of such maof July 26, 1904. In such a machine time is lost in putting on and removing the gut from the discharge spout so that the effective action of the machine is intermittent requiring frequent stopping and starting of the feeding device.

` My present invention has for its object to provide an attachment for such machine, whereby, practically, a continuous operation is attained.

To this end my invention includes a spout holder key that Ais secured to the discharge pipe or neck of the stufling machine and on which a spout holder is swivelly mounted, the spout holder key having a discharge port through which the sausage meat is fed into one of a plurality ofholder arm ducts, from which it passes through the corre'- sponding spout into the gut to be stuffed. The spouts are removably inserted in the spout holder sockets so that While one sausage gut is being stuffed, the operator can be replacing the spout (from which the gut has been previously lled) by a fresh one.

The invention further resides in those novel details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts all of which will be first fully described and-then be specifically pointed 'out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accolnpanying drawing, in which:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a sausage stuffing machine With` the invention applied. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the invention. Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a cross. section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5-is across section'similar to Fig. 4 of a modicationof the spout tube, and Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view showing how the spouts maybe racked yvhen not in use. Fig. 7 is across section slmilar to sages.

Figs. 4 and 5 of 'a further modification of the spout tube.

In the drawings 'in which like numerals and letters of referencedesignate like parts in all the figures, 1 is the discharge pipe or neck of the sausage stuffing machine, one end 2 of the same is threaded to receive the union 7, which secures the spout holder key ,3 to the pipe 1, through the medium of the key iiange 4. The key 3 is bored at. 5 from one end and has a discharge port G, through which the sausage meat is ejected.

8 designates the spout holder which is made in tvvo sections, secured together through the medium of flanges 1.2 and set screws 14, leather or other resilient Washers 15:3 are interposed at the joint so .that the holder 8 can be held with greater or lesser friction on the key 3. 'The holder 8 is provided with a plurality (two being shown although more may be provided if desired) of arms I9 that terminate in sockets 11, which are bored in coniform to receive the conical ends 15 of the spouts proper. The spout ends 15 have flanges 16 to which the spout tubes 18, are secured by soldering or otherwise. Each spout tube 18 is formed of thin metal bent Vto shape and provided- 3, and instead of making the spouts 18 with.

the longitudinal rigid member 19 alone,they may be made as indicated in Fig. 5, by reference to Which it will be seen that the metal of the spout is grooved, as at 20, adjacent to the rigid member 19aso that the spout 18a may be provided'with suitable air pas- In the practical operation of ythe invention, While one gut is being stuffed, the

operator can place a fresh discharge spout with an unstuffed gut on the same, in the holder 8, and as soon as the stuffed gut is filled by turning the holder 8 around on the member 3 until the fresh spout comes into position, the feed of material is automatically cut off from the filled spout and Ycut on to the spout. If desired, a suitable rack shown in Fig. 6 may be rovided to hold the spouts with their unl ed guts, so that the operator may have a suitable supply on hand. g

Fig. 7 is a section similar to Fig. 5 of another modification showing a diierent manner of forming the air escape groove 22 by bending the member 19 into a tubular form.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it is thought the complete construction, operation and advantages of the invention Will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

l. In combination with the discharge pipe of a stuffing machine or the like, a spout holder key secured to said pipe and extending in the same longitudinal direction as said discharge pipe, a spout holder swivelly mounted on said key, said spout holder having an arm extending at right angles to the longitudinal axis of said spout holder key and terminating in a socketed head, and a spout removably held with retaining friction in said socketed head, said key, said arm, and said spout having communicating passages.

2. An attachment for sausage stuiling ma.-

v chines and the like comprising in combination Wit-h the discharge pipe of the sausage machine, a spout holder key, means for securing said .key to the discharge pipeto extend in the same longitudinal direction as said discharge pipe, a spout holder swivelly mounted on said key, and including a plu-v rality of arms extending at right angles to the longitudinal axis of said key land said discharge pipe and terminating in spout receiving sockets, spouts removably held With retaining friction in said sockets, and extending parallel to one another and to the ,longitudinal axis of said key and discharge pipe, said key having an internal chamber and a portl for effecting communication with one or another of said spout holder arms, said spout holder arms having ducts cooperative With said key port and said spout socket, said spouts having a passage for delivering the material to the gut to be stuied, and means carried by said spouts to provide an air discharge' from the interior of the gut being stuied.

3. In combination With the discharge ipe of a sausage stufiing machine, a key mem er, means for securing said key member over the discharge end of said pipe with its 'longitudinal axis alinement with the londischarged, a spout holder swivelly mounted` on said key and held with retaining friction, vsaid spout holderhaving a plurality of radial arms provided with ducts, said arms terminating in socket members, stuiling spouts includingr a supporting socket piece to fit the socket member,and a spout section proper together with a guard or shield between said socket piece and said spout member proper, said spouts having their longitudinel axes heldparallel to the longitudinal axis of said key and discharge pipe. n

4. In combination with the discharge pipe of a sausage stuffing machine, a key member, means for securing said key member over the discharge end of said pipe, said key member having an internal chamber into which the material is delivered, and having a lateral port through which the material is discharged, a spout holder swivelly mounted on said key and held With retaining friction, said spout holder having a plurality of radial arms provided With ducts, said arms terminating in socket members, the axes of which extend at right angles to the longitudinal axes of said arms, stuiiing spouts including a supporting socket piece to fit the socket member, and a spout section proper together with a guard or shield between said. socket piece and said spout member proper,

said spout member proper having a tubular body having an outer longitudinal rib to When in position on the spout, said spouts lprovide an air discharge space for the gut i extending with their longitudinal axesl pari said arms and in communication With the passages ofthe same, said key having a passage lfor eiiecting communication-between the discharge member of the stuffing machine and one of said arms.

HENRY W. LODEN, SR.

Witnesses: i I

OLIVER B. SIEGRIsT, VICTOR GARMAN. 

